This picture should go alongside the Lee/Flintoff Edgbaston 2005 version
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As for the names of the Lordās members, real or unreal, they immediately recalled a certain sketch, l am sure others will remember as well.
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Agreed. And Australians would be carrying on the same way the Poms are now.
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Not once in the three deliveries (including the stumping) did Bairstow look back at the keeper after the ball went past . Not once. Itās deplorable battingship (new word alert) to have zero awareness.
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Bairstow is an idiot for not being aware of what he was doing. The ball wasnāt dead, and no sooner has Carey gloved the ball heās having a shot at the stumps. If he waited 5-6 seconds to throw it, then yeah I think Bairstow has the right to think the play is dead and is able to move out of his crease. The fact it happened instantaneously (Carey throws the ball whilst heās still in his ground) and JB wanders out of his crease, itās fair game, youāre out. And Bairstow was doing it in our batting innings as well, so what are Poms complaining about? Itās typical English mental gymnastics. Getting beat, letās find a way to make out weāve been dudded and take the moral high ground. Thoughts on McCullum running Murali out when he went down the pitch to celebrate a Sangakkara hundred?
Absolutely they can be worse but many go off just fine and most of the violence is outside the grounds by people who have no interest in even attending but are purely there to cause trouble. I donāt get to many soccer games over there anymore, maybe on average 5 or 6 per year but have been to 100ās over the time in all locations and in the lower tiers the violence would be maybe 10-20% of games but the old Div 1 and now EPL it feels much higher. Have been in quite a few scuffles outside the ground but only 1 bad one inside which I still have a scar on my head from.
In the many tests Iāve been to over there I havenāt seen too much violence for many years but the racism towards the subcontinent teams is very noticeable in the crowd
Warnings in sport also annoy me. When umpires talk to football players about not doing something or theyāll be penalised, or to āget the ball outā, Iām thinking thatās the farking coaches job. Donāt tell them not to transgress- thatās giving them an advantage if they are too stupid to realise the danger.
In this case Bairstow didnāt need warning - he was aware enough of the rules to have been actively trying it himself, although his coach could of course have given him a thesis in this dismissal mode riskā¦ what did he need a warning for,exactly?
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^ This is the key for me.
I was always taught that for every ball that went behind the stumps you are to turn and look to see where it ends up. Just a cursory glance to the keeper would have been sufficient for Carey not to have had a ping.
Incredibly dumb by Bairstow
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Anyone else notice a theme going on here. Uzzi has become a target for abusive comments, more than once now. It happened at Edgbaston with Ollie and now these members at Lords. If anyone was deserving of their ire at Lords, you would think that Carey would be, but there have been no reports of comments or abuse directed at him. Has Uzzie copped it because he is meek, or for some other reason? Kudos to Warner for standing up for his mild mannered opening partner.
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Or just wait for the umpire to say āoverā. Itās really not that hard.
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Leaving his crease too early.
Iām fine with warnings like āhey bowler, your front foot is getting awfully close to overstepping the popping creaseā or āhey batter, you are getting close to running on the protected areaā.
Mankads? Nahh. Stay in your crease. Itās not the opponents job to warn someone that they might get them out.
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Will depend on entirely what the pitch looks like and what England have requested. If itās more of the same which I think it will be then yeah Murphy comes in for Lyon and maybe 1 quick swaps. Do tge Lons have the bollocks to go with a seamer at Headingley, if so we may not play a spinner
Gideon Haigh is such a terrific writer. Thanks for sharing.
He always sums up situations in cricket so perfectly, whether I agree with the content or not.
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Back in the early 90ās Dean Jones was bowled from a no ball against the West Indies touring the Caribbean. While thinking he was out he walked out of his crease and was run out. I rememberer I was filthy at the time but Iām not to concerned now.
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āI say old chap, these Australians are from the old convict colony, you know. This sort of un-gentleman like behaviour just wonāt do. We better give these scallywags a good ābooingā to voice our disapproval. That should get the message across to these uneducated commoners.
I do believe my great great grand father, the Duke, had a servant sent to Australia for using the good dinner china. I say, having the servants using the good dinner china, just wonāt do.ā
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Warnings about running on the pitch are mandatory.
Prior to an official warning. A casual ājust be carefulā.
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Exactly.
Is McCullum for farking real. So now that heās older and wiser the āSpirit of the gameā should apply. But when heās young and stupid itās ok for him to do the exact some thing.
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